Then, with the faint odour of the cherished honeysuckle at the corner of the house in their nostrils, and the faraway plaint of a mourning whip-poor-will floating spookily up from the lowlands on their right, they settled themselves, one to the task of telling a story he had rather have kept, and the other listening eagerly, yet with a certain dread.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
We're spookily good at it.
"Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"
Cory Doctorow